“People’s views on education policy are quite malleable.” That was the conclusion of a study that Stephen Sawchuk wrote about at Education Week where apparently they “discovered” the impact of push polling.

I was shocked yesterday when I came across news that the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police came out in support of the Common Core State Standards. Why in the world would police officers inject themselves into an education policy debate? I smell Gates money. TimesNews.net reports: According to a report released at the press […]

Ezra Klein asks this at WashPo’s Wonkblog: Top story: Are we getting smart on education policy? Common core standards become a lightning rod. ”The Common Core State Standards in English, which have been adopted in 46 states and the District, call for public schools to ramp up nonfiction so that by 12th grade students will […]

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"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."